Professor and Chair
Charles N. Darrah
PhD - Stanford, 1990
Graduate Coordinator for the Applied
Anthropology Master's Program.
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Semester's Courses to find out which classes Dr. Darrah
is teaching this term.
Dr. Darrah offers courses in
cultural anthropology, ethnographic methods, and applied anthropology.
He is interested in the relationship of technology and
organization to work and skills; industrial ethnography; anthropology
of education; and identity and culture in Silicon Valley.
His research on work has
resulted in the book, Learning and work: An exploration
in industrial ethnography.
Since 1991 he
has been working with Jan English-Lueck at San Jose State developing
the Silicon Valley Cultures Project (SVCP).
He is a research
affiliate of the Institute for the Future and Professor of Anthropology
at San Jose State University.